I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.

You put your time where your priority is.

The end-of-summer winds make people restless.

Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.

Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.

Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.

One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.

I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.

The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.

That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.

The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?

Words have an immeasurable impact, they can either build or destroy so be careful of your words.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it's as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

We want to encourage a world of creators, of inventors, of contributors. Because this world that we live in, this interactive world, is ours.

You can’t help someone just by making a wish to do so, you have to take action.

The choiceless truth of who you are is revealed to be permanently here permeating everything. Not a thing and not separate from anything.

When you have made a thorough and reasonably long effort, to understand a thing, and still feel puzzled by it, stop, you will only hurt yourself by going on.

Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse.

Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.

Gun stripping is the tea ceremony of America.